The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-05
THE SCRAP BAG.


miehty dull place. There isn't a Demo-
cratic voter there.
The County Clerk of Lonoke Ark. isre-
sponsible for the story OF a jay bird kill ng
snake eight feet long.
A dead pigeon was recently picked up
on the St Lawrence River with silver
band on its right leg inscribed sc H."
One of the rare productions of Jackson
county, Mich, is n white rattlesnake with
seven rattlts. 1t belongs to Richard Crouch
and is quite tame.
A little Michigan girl has without assist
ance picked and mounted on cards, aud
exhibited at a church fair, 2, 124 specimens
OF four leaf clover.
The annual picnic of the Anti-Horss-
Thief Association of Persons, Kan, was
held the other day. The exercises were
prefaced by prayer.
A fine little story comes from Rockville,
H., where it is said that inst as spread
ing viper" was about to strike baby cat
pounced upon the snake and killed it.
To be bull 6ghter of repute is more lu.
crative than being a famous ball player.
The Kelly of the Colon arena is to receive
$40 600 for the coming winters season.
Bob Rosentbal, formerly a well known
gambler in Louisville, KY, is insane. He
Is a member of q prominent family, and
liquor did not make him the black sheep,
for no one ever saw him drunk.
Prince Bismarck weighed 2O7 pounds be-
fore be left KisseDgen recently. Before
DR.. Schwenengen took charge OF him Bis
arck's weight averaged forty pounds
more, much to the great mans disgust,
Matches are so cheap now in t h
principal cigar stores of New York that
when customer asks for match he gets
II a. 4 r IL
ism kind, cost less than half cent box.
The experience of the customs inspec.
tress OF New York who found a suit OF
mems clothing under the skirts of a wo-
man she was searching on Saturday was
more than matche by that OF an inspec-
tress in Washington Territory not long
ago, who found that the lady she was
searching was man disguised in female
attire.
The favorite study of the children of the
Polish Jews on Essex, Hester, Allen and
neighboring streets Is geography. They
prattle off the names of the towns and
cities in America and Europe with
volubility that is surprising, and every
mothers son and daughter of them has
selected the spot in the country where he
or she will start in business.
Leroy Brown, an elderly man, was play
ing with pet kitten at his home near the
railroad track in Homer, n. Y, on Wed
nesday. The kitten jumped from his arms
and darted across the track. Mr.. Brown
started in pursuit, and was struck by an
express train and hurled fifty feet upon an
embankment. bis neck was broken and
he died almost instantly.
All the Hop Lees and Ching Lus and
Wun Lungs on the Chinese signs do not
necessarily indicate the names of the O Tn-
ho fnn1 Of IN.
their business places and their merchan-
tile companies with notices. Kwong On
Tai, for instance, means "Great old good, :"
or, as we would say, 1.-The long established
and extensive company for the sale of ar
ticles of high merit"
An interesting literary novelty is prom
ised in Texas. Mr.. James B. Goode, of
Paris, in that state, has made arrangements
to publish all his poems in a volume of
more than thousand pages, with many IL
Illustrations. It is called "Gems of
Thought" and will contain over forty
thousand verses of poetry on about one
thousand subjects, with great number Of
humorous prose articles on his life,
thoughts, travels and adventures as a re-
porter, q detective, and a gentleman of
leisure. Brother Goode has evidently dis
charged great variety OF functions in life,
and has thought out an enormous lot of
SOAOcn kcncs
A Chicago law publisher who printed a
volume of 500 pages containing summary
| of Captain Blacks defence of the Anarch.
| lists, says that 1t has bean impossible to
dispose of any number of them even at the
low price of dollar apiece. The receipts
from their sale were to be devoted to the
effort to save the men from the gallows
but they will scarcely amount to 500
| The price Is to be reduced in order to stimu
late sales. One of the yarns more interest
| ing than truthful that is going the round:
/ just now IL, that the wives of.the condemned
| men intend to follow them into the grave
and will commit suicide on the day theil
husbands are hanged.
Probably as good an indication of the
slow times in Wall street as any is that til,
pools on the bank reserve have dropped
from 81 and s. man to % cents. Several
| years ago. when the brokers were flush, i
became practice every Saturday morning
to make up pools on the increase or de
crease in the surplus reserve in the banl
statement, which was issued at noon
Brokers and customers threw In 81 or s.
as to the size OF the pool, and the one near
est correct scooped the pool. The pool
then were worth anywhere from $50 I,
500. Now, with 25-cent contributions
the value to the best guesser is from 5
to $40.